yasmin, the government today, well, borisjohnson yasmin, the government today, well, boris johnson andborisjohnson and grant chaps was saying they have been preparing for this for another reason, a no—deal brexit and saying that that is why they had handled it relatively well. would you agree with that analysis? no, i don't think they've handled anything well at all. and it is interesting, it's like coverity and brexit are now, because of the timings, as much as anything else, are kind of merging into each other, aren't they? i think they should send liz trust out there to sort them out, because she apparently can, you know, get the world to do the right thing by us. but, nothing is being done very well at the moment, and the brexit deadline is looming, there are some beds and little glimpses of breakthroughs which whether they happen or not, at least we can hope. i think we are going to come to that story in a minute, so let's pause on that, shall we? and just carry on with the covid stuff, because the independent, giles, well, a picture that we used in our package, our report this ev

yasmin? >> it's really just terrifying to hear, even from that one emt worker talking about the fact that he worries someone's going to put a call in to get an ambulance to their home because they desperately need it and that balance isn't going to show up because they're not deemed essential services. how ambulance services and emts cannot be deemed essential in the midst of a pandemic where 275,000 plus people have now died is astounding and nbc's el s lyson barber, great reporting. >>> and now to new jersey, with cases surging, hospitals remain under intense pressure there, drug company pfizer is still working out details to distribute its vaccine to independent pharmacies, msnbc's lindsay riser is outside a pharmacy in newark, new jersey for us, lindsay, good to see you, talk us through the efforts being made right now in jersey. >> hey, yasmin, good to be with you, it's up to a lot of independent pharmacies like the one behind me to roll out this vaccine program. here in new jersey thing

>> yasmin, let me be clear. the bill that was passed by congress, president trump refused to sign it for more than a week. pushing back when unemployment checks will get out. pushing back when rent relief will get out. and pushing back when the stimulus checks will be distributed. for months and months over the summer and fall, the house, which had already passed a $3 trillion relieve package, kept trying to get the senate to take it up. the senate is run by republicans. majority leader mitch mcconnell refused to take up a package of more than $500 billion. that's a huge difference between what the house passed and what the senate was ever willing to consider. it was only when a bipartisan group of eight senators equal numbers of republicans and democrats, moved forward that we got the $900 billion package, which then trump held up. it has been enormously frustrating. frankly, president-elect biden is going to face a very tough situation when he becomes president in three weeks. >> i -- i know you don't have a l

but you know what, yasmin?g to participate in a big rally on january 6th contesting that certificate he have indication of the electoral results. it doesn't seem as though president trump is changing his mind at least yet on how he wants to leave office. >> i got to say, beth, i don't think i would go so far as to say the "new york post" is growing a conscience, but we could argue it all day. eugene, talk to me about republicans securing the two seats in georgia. what is it going to say about the president's legacy if they're not able to secure that perdue and leffler seat? >> that will be the next chapter in the story about how the president changed georgia and its future in terms of making people look and think again about whether or not they wanted to support president trump or people who support him in this election. we know he is going to be campaigning in georgia, in a county actually that he really will need voters to turn out for, or didn't during the 2020 election, but there's doubt the president will

we're in the midst of a disaster, yasmin. as an icu doc, i can say this, that 48 states that we're estimating are going to experience extreme stress in their icu dwebetween december a february. that is the window in which vaccinations will be ramping up, but people will have not have had the two-dose regimen or the one-dose regimen. so we have to keep our eye on the immediate priorities, which is mitigating loss of life. that means high-quality masking, the three-ply mask, the blue mask if you can get your hands on it. face shielding if you're above 55. doing basic things like grocery shopping. covid-19 does not respect curfews. it transmits in any indoor environment and please do not travel. the big supply chain limitation right now is adequately training critical care personnel. i'm begging all americans here, please don't travel. >> yeah the task force also basically said, if you're over 65 years old, you should get your groceries delivered and you shouldn't be leaving the house, at all, really. and if you're under the age

yasmin, let's start with the telegraph.eopen ports. only a few hours ago, he was saying that the situation might be resolved within a few hours. it doesn't look as if that's the case. well, it's interesting. ithink doesn't look as if that's the case. well, it's interesting. i think from the front pages i've looked at some of the telegraph is the only one which is saying this. it is my view that the telegraph is a bulletin for borisjohnson. so they either have this information which is genuine or its something to maybe reduce the panic that is around the country here and around the world. this is an extraordinarily thick —— extraordinary thing to happen so quickly. he said he had talked to president macron. this mass testing is promised, but even at the press conference, the numbers he was giving for the numbers of lori drivers, what was according to some experts far below the real number. drivers, what was according to some experts far below the real numberlj think experts far below the real number.” think it is. sorry to c

yasmin? >> all right, shack. good to see you. thanks for the update on that. appreciate it. want to go to more on this. with that i want to bring in jim cavanaugh, a former atf agent in charge and an msnbc analyst. every time we're on air together it's because something is devastating or breaking. right now it's the cleanup, trying to figure out the motive and the person who pulled this thing off. three people critically injured. there were some remains found on site. investigators looking to find those remains. what's the biggest thing with the breaking news that there is a person of interest? >> i think it's following along. it could very well be, and we talked about it since it happened, a spectacular suicide event and the bomber could very well be the remains that have been found. that's not totally the case. it could have been a person that was killed, some other person, a homeless person or a dog on the street of remains. it has to be verified it's human and who it is. it remains, yasmi

yasmin vossoughian picks up the coverage right now. >> hi, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian in for steph ruhle this morning. it's tuesday, december 29th. here is what is happening this morning. all eyes on the senate today as the chamber comes back in session soon. the fate of really two important measures now in their hands. first whether millions of americans will get $2,000 stimulus checks instead of the $600 already passed after the house voted to pass that measure with 44 republicans joining most democrats in approving it. the senate's top democrat now asking the president to convince senate republicans to back the bigger payments today, too. >> i am telling donald trump, don't just talk about it, act. these senate republicans have followed you through thick and thin. get them now to act and support the $2,000 checks. >> so no word yet, of course, from majority leader mitch mcconnell and how he's going to handle this whole thing. we're also waiting to see if the senate will follow the house's lead and hand donald trump the first and only veto over

i'm yasmin vossoughian. playing chicken. that's what the president and republicans are doing right now. unemployment benefits for millions run out tonight, and while a bill to fix this sits on the president's desk, he's choosing to stay in florida, largely absent from the conversation aside from a few tweets asking congress to approve $2,000 stimulus checks. can an agreement be reached and will we see a government shutdown by tuesday morning? and rocked by an explosion. national nation national -- nashville the downtown looking more like a war zone and police searching the home of a tennessee man. more what we heard this afternoon. >> i am confident in the team we have that we will get to the bottom of this, find out the story of this individual, or individuals. we don't know right now, but this, this ultimate scrooge who on christmas morning instead of spreading joy and cheer decided to spread devastation and destruction. >> and seeming the only action this president is taking, pardons. dozens this week cleared of crimes co

one last look at the ft, yasmin in this lot.sjust announced it's ready to roll—out the pfizer tech vaccine. it's interesting that they are so far beyond —— behind, when the uk and us have started this roll—out. beyond —— behind, when the uk and us have started this roll—outlj beyond —— behind, when the uk and us have started this roll-out. i think it's just taking due care, have started this roll-out. i think it'sjust taking due care, and one mustn't forget that the vaccine was actually created in europe, and we went for it first, and that was good, but what we also have to remember is that even now, even now, our test entries record is abysmal. and because contracts have gone out to bodies and also all sorts of things have happened. so it's absolutely right what giles said, we did get to start vaccination programmes first, but it's our test and trays systems are still failing all kinds of people and in all kinds of areas. it's not government bashing, it's just saying we need to be, we need to be much better at it. the vaccinati

wow. >> small victories, yasmin. small victories. >> i mean, again, chuck, i -- it just makes you emotional. you kind of tear up watching it. it's what the future may hold because of this advancement. it's so incredible. and i will say, you made the joke about whenever you get a needle in your arm there's a bit of prepidation. both kay and dr. obuagu said they're nervous about the needle. i said you're doctors and nurses. you're using giving them. they said we're used to giving them, not getting them. joking around with them. just an amazing day. >> dr. gupta, final -- i think you are getting yours this week? are you getting your vaccination this week? >> tomorrow morning. and i'm grateful for it. chuck, i just wanted to say, just a follow up on what yasmin mentioned. just for your viewers out there. i know one of the officials we just saw is planning on traveling after the second dose. this is a source of confusion. but this is one of the misperceptions. just because you get vaccinated with that second dose does not

let's head back to yasmin vossoughian in rhode island.itoring a couple of things. we're monitoring the overrun hospitals. i'm standing outside of a field hospital here in cranston, rhode island. also we're monitoring vaccine distribution as well. we have some breaking news coming out of the white house confirming white house chief of staff mark meadows was actually summoned the fda commissioner stephen hahn to the west wing for a meeting to talk about why he hasn't moved faster to approve the pfizer vaccine. we'll be monitoring that meeting. we're also talking about schools. the question of in-person or remote learning and how that's affecting the learning of so many kids across this country. a national nonprofit has just released the most comprehensive study to date comparing pre-covid-19 test scores with recent assessments during this pandemic. i want to bring in nbc news investigative and consumer correspondent vicki nguyen. this is really concerning because so many kids across this country right now having to do remote learning and th

yasmin, who goes first?pital staff here and people in nursing homes but as you mentioned new york is still in the thick of it and we see an end to indoor dining in new york come monday. >> yes. things are worse day by day in this vaccine and it is a moment not only for new yorkers but for americans across the country and folks around the world just wanting to get back to normal. good to see you. thank you for joining us. she mentioned the nursing homes, older americans are living in nursing homes and will be among the first in line to get this vaccine offering them a rare glimmer of hope after months of hardship and isolation. anne thompson spoke with folks in new jersey. >> when you heard about the vaccine, what was your reaction? >> hallelujah. finally, you know, getting something that will hopefully improve everyone's life. >> reporter: what's been the toughest part of the last nine months? >> not being able to see our family. >> right, yeah. >> because that we do miss our kids. we can speak to them on th

it's the same old story, yasmin. >> dr.i want to talk about this new piece you have out titled "there will be no quick covid fix." you had a lot of amazing stuff in there. i was shaking my head through most of it thinking, i can't believe this is what we're dealing with. despite its virlens, many simply assume that the pandemic will end some time in the year 2021. but such hopes are misplaced. talk to us about this. >> well, we just heard how bad the infection is. this is not just in the united states. it's all over the world. and we're going to have a better 2021 than we did 2020. we're going to have vaccines, better drugs, we'll have fast tests, we'll have a better president. all that is good news. it doesn't mean it's going away. one thing that we've now learned, and we should have known, is that these viruses adapt. if there's no resistance, virus doesn't have to change and that's what's basically happened for the first part of the pandemic. now the virus is running into people who have already been infected. it's runni

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yasmin, you're in one of the hardest hit neighborhoods by the coronavirus pandemic. is the storm affecting distribution to local hospitals? >> reporter: this is such a 2020 story, chris. you said it best yesterday afternoon, basically a perform storm, the combination of delivering this lifesaving vaccine around the city, throughout the northeast, throughout the country. you have this major winter storm hitting the northeast, especially here in new york city. i'm standing in front of this u.p.s. center. i said what a beautiful day to go out seeing. somebody said you're coming to queens. if i go to the side streets behind my cameraman, there's some buildup there, a couple inches of snow on the smaller streets. nonetheless, new york has this thing on lock. the second they get snow on the ground, they start cleaning it up. youd would think it's 80 degrees and sunny with the amount of traffic coming out of the u.p.s. facility. over the last 30 minutes, you've seen trucks filing out of this thing. we got a statement earlier today from u.p.s. themselves. they said this is a

yasmin, i know there are high spirits there among the health workers waiting to get the vaccine. what are they saying to you? >> reporter: think about what's been taking place in this state over the last two weeks, andrea. in the last two weeks there's been more deaths in this state than in the entire month of november. they're getting 30,000 doses of this vaccine over the next two weeks or so. this hospital alone, 2,000 of those doses, andrea, we saw delivered this morning. and the staff, the pharmacy staff, the folks that receive these vaccines at first off the fedex truck, they were elated, they were cheering as this small box was rolled in, holding almost 2,000 doses of that vaccine. in this hospital behind me, there's been 741 deaths total since march. there's three out of four beds at this point occupied, covid beds, alone. 57 patients are on ventilators currently and 433 people are currently hospitalized with covid. one of the people that is going to be getting this vaccine first is dr. obugawu, an infectious disease specialist. he was head of the pfizer vaccine trials thr

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>> that is a great question, yasmin. keith keefer with the national association for atomic veterans is extremely well skilled in this. their organization has people spread out all over the country with contact information. so if you happen to be in their area, you can go to their web site, look up the area, find the person. for example, ronald benoit is stationed in massachusetts and kind of takes care of that cluster of states. they will help you try to get benefits. they are very skilled at it. and, yeah, it's a great route to go with. they are a wonderful organization. so the hydrogen bombs were huge compared to the atomic bombs that were dropped on japan. they made them look small, which is a bit terrifying when you think about it. yes, some atomic veterans have been given compensation for their suffering. unfortunately, it is one of those things where a lot of the atomic veterans passed away before they were able to get said compensation. because the va limits the definition of who qualifies as an atomic veteran to

so, they're looking for a plan b, yasmin. >> americans need relief. we can't say that enough. americans need relief. something needs to get done. josh letterman, thank you as always. thank you for the update. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm going to be back bright and early tomorrow morning filling in for stephanie ruhle. hope to see you there. up next at the top of the hour, reverend al sharpton will host the 2020 rev awards. next on msnbc. e 2020 rev awards. next on msnbc. super emma just about sleeps in her cape. but when we realized she was battling sensitive skin, we switched to tide plus downy free. it's gentle on her skin, and out cleans our old bargain detergent. tide pods plus downy free. safe for sensitive skin with eczema and psoriasis. good morning, mr. sun. good morning, blair. [ chuckles ] whoo. i'm gonna grow big and strong. yes, you are. i'm gonna get this place all clean. i'll give you a hand. and i'm gonna put lisa on crutches! wait, what? said she's gonna need crutches. she fell pretty hard. you might want to clean that up, girl. excuse us. when owning a

what's going on there, yasmin? >> reporter: can you believe it, chris?that kind of small box, 1,90 do 30 /* 0 there is a mix of nerves and happiness. happiness because this day is finally here. they'll administer vaccines at 1:00 p.m. nerves because they don't know what to expect. three of four beds in this hospital, yale new haven health, are occupied right now with covid patients. 57 people on ventilators right now. 433 covid patients in the hospital. they are reaching capacity. as you mentioned, just the last two weeks or so have been devastating for the state of connecticut. one of those people that is going to be one of the first people to be getting a vaccine here at yale new haven health is katherine kay husler. she's one of the folks that is nervous and excited at the same time. thank you so much for joining me on this day. it's so incredible to think just in about an hour and a half you'll be getting the vaccine. how does it feel for you? >> it feels good. i'm really grateful to be able to get it early. it's like a breath of fresh air in a trans

yasmin, obviously a dire situation unfolding on the ground. walk us through the major concerns there. >> reporter: how much time do you have? a lot of concerns on the ground here as hospital, as you just read from that alert, are reaching capacity. a couple minutes before you came to me, behind me, you see this ambulance here, you saw a patient being rolled out of this ambulance. they were brought in through those double doors here. you can see now the emts bringing the empty bed back out, driving back to into hospital which is the associate hospital to this field hospital. essentially what's happening is they have designated certain beds for covid-19 patients. they hit capacity on the covid beds. that doesn't mean if you have a heart attack and live in the state of rhode island you can't go to a hospital and get a bed. now they have subsequently moved the skilled hospital, that's frees up beds that have other ailments aside from covid-19. if you think about the numbers, it's insane. the population of the state of rhode island, ayman, is 1 mil

yasmin, kathy, thank you so much. i want to go deeper into this weather and bring in my colleague, meteorologist bill karins. bill, what's in store? here in new york city, things don't look good. are they going to get worse? >> no, rapid improvement actually. it's still very cold. the big headline with this storm, like everyone just opening their eyes and going, wow, i can't believe it, is what's happening near the binghamton, new york, area. we've gotten numerous reports of 40 inches of snow. a heavy bit of snow set up over the region. we're talking about 3 1/2 feet of snow that these people are shoveling out and trying to dig out. the pictures are incredible. this is newark valley. the highest at 44. binghamton at 41 inches. albany, new york, all along the southern tier of new york up to two feet. we're wait from the new report from albany airport. central park, 10, boston, 6. my brother sent me this picture from albany, new york. that's his vehicle in the driveway. that's only about 18 to 24 inches. just picture wh

yasmin, you've been seeing the same thing all day in rhode island. talk to me about what it's been like up there. >> reporter: yeah, i was in rhode island yesterday. you're so right, katy, it really does move you, the times in which -- i've seen this a couple times now, folks getting vaccinated every single time you get emotion. now in connecticut as well, around 1:00 p.m. 500 front line health care workers at yale new haven health were vaccinated as well. even that moment, seeing them get vaccinated was quite moving. it was emotional because you feel like, yes, we have a long road ahead but it was the beginning of the end in a way. you talked about moderna leading into us. this state getting 30,000 doses this week. they're hoping to get 90,000 more doses next weekend. in total, 120,000 doses. hopefully that's after moderna goes through its full approval process. they also have a subcommittee in place in the state of connecticut in which they'll do a third approval process. they did in rhode island yesterday. that's pretty quick process in which they

at ppp loans. >>> good afternoon, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian. of ground to cover in the two hours ahead, including some breaking news, reporting from the "washington post" revealing a new effort by the president to overturn the will of the voters in the state of georgia just hours before he holds a campaign rally in the state. we're going to have the details in a couple of moments. plus, covid cases

yasmine and a little bit like letting a bunch of people drown before you rescue other ones. you know? the government failed in other things that it was supposed to do here. >> yeah. >> but this whole vaccine process has been moving at record speeds. tell us what the danger is if the fda does try to move even faster now at the president's behest? >> look, it's not vaccines that end the pandemic. the people choosing to get vaccinated. that's what's at stake here. we can have billions of vials of vaccines but if upwards of 200 million americans aren't rolling up their sleeves to get the shot we won't safely reach herd immunity and the pandemic will continue for many more months. unfortunately, the fda hasn't lost his capability in the face of scientists and the face of the public. earlier this year rushed and emergency use authorization of hydroxychloroquine, had to rescind it later saying the drug could are harmful and did the same really rushing the emergency use authorization for plasma as well. the fundamenta fda commissioner came under fire for scientists for that. we have

seema yasmin, cnn medical analyst and former cdc detective. she's author of "viral bs: medical myths and why we fall for them." if you could put this in perspective for us. we know the u.s. reported just over 3,400 coronavirus deaths tuesday, second highest in a single day since the start of the pandemic. that timeline, what we are seeing in hospitals and death rate lines up to people infected around the thanksgiving holiday. what goes through your mind as we continue to see americans ignore travel warnings around christmas? >> what goes through my mind is horror now that we are seeing the bump from thanksgiving travel and still seeing millions of people pass through tsa checkpoints per day over the past five days, so what will we see in january? i just worry so much health care workers are at their breaking point. we've got icus in southern california and san jaquin valley nearing capacity. and because the hot spots are so widespread, like everywhere is a hot spot, it makes it that much harder for icus in one region to say to a neighboring ar

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yasmin, were born near there, work for nhs after getting your degree at cambridge.did you think when you saw the pictures rolling in this morning and what can the u.s. learn from this? >> i was born a few miles from where maggie as she's known to her friends, the 90-year-old grandmother that turns 91 next week got her shot this morning, making history, brooke, first person in the western world to receive a vaccine for covid-19 outside of a trial. i loved her message. she was saying if she can do it, everyone else can get vaccinated too, that british keep calm and carry on but get your vaccine and wear your mask as well. the message for the u.s. is that there are other countries that have done due diligence in terms of planning and preparation and thinking about how much vaccine they're going to need, also rolling out supply chains. in the u.s., we were promised 300 million doses of vaccine by end of the year. we are looking at one-tenth of the target, we are so far off the mark. cnn did an analysis of 27 states. none of them said they expect to receive enough vaccin

i'm yasmin vassoughian in for katy tur. it's 11:00 p.m. out west and 2:00 p.m. in the west. today about the key officials biden is trusting to lead the fight against a worsening pandemic. biden has asked a few familiar faces to join his

from stanfordn university from yasmin. how diseaseested in transmission mitigation strategies varied between those doing the trading, such as quarantine another strategies, that would have been used by the enslaved people. so, what did the enslaved people bring to this versus what the slavers opening to this? it is fascinating what she said about the military -- you said about the military units. some of these guys must've had their own practices about health. both sides are contributing to this world of trying to mitigate the disease. talk a little bit about that. , this isirst of all just like my sister. [laughter] i did not know that. you have a tough one from your sister. manuel: many, many years. yasmin, to answer your question, what happened here is knowledge is going all directions. i should've said from the this heroic follow ,uropean, or white westerner and getting tainted by this place. we have been subject, even today, to scandal. years ago people were defending oxfam workers because they would not have done thi

. >> yeah, first of all, i have to say that this yasmin rayes is personal, she's like my sister. >> okay, i didn't know, you got a tough one here from your sister. >> so yeah, long story, many, many years. >> yasmin, to answer your question, what happened here, there is a huge exchange of knowledge and it's going all directions and one of the things that i actually tried to avoid here as well, you have said that from the beginning is to follow this matter from the heroic european arriving in a disaster zone, and getting tainted by this place. okay. so we have been subject, even today we have been subject, there were people coming out and defending the workers, they wouldn't have done these kind of things if they wouldn't have been forced by -- anyway, my point is that i tried to avoid doing this from the beginning. one of the results of doing that, immediately practitioners from all backgrounds, including -- but mostly africans are going to start coming out and, their surgical knowledge, the knowledge of botany, the knowledge of how to deal with diseases with the elements, this is -- the

>> reporter: that's right, yasmin.hanged scenery from our familiar perch in wilmington as the president-elect enjoys a little downtime heading into the new year before we know what is a busy week next week. he's heading down to georgia to campaign for the two democrats in the senate runoff. tuesday is the runoff. wednesday, the tallying of the electoral college votes in congress. the biden transition team is also telling us we should expect more cabinet announcements next week including potentially that of the attorney general. if you look back at the timeline of when past president-elects have announced their attorneys general, that's often been in the month of december. you can look at george h.w. bush announced his choice as early as november. so we actually asked biden last week about the holdup here. i asked him, for instance, if it had to do with those georgia runoff elections, if he wanted to wait and see if he was going to have a democratic or republican senate. he said that's not the issue. he said he's focuse

for him is seeing most of his extended families, but most of all he just wants to see his sister, yasmine, she is a freshman and he hasn't seen her in person, since she left for college in august, a few months before he was diagnosed with leukemia. >> during the holiday season, she is here, and it is one of my only opportunities to be with her. >> reporter: but that can't happen this year, only two family members are allowed in the hospital as designated caregivers. in matteo's case, his mom and dad can >> this whole covid thing has really impacted not just us, but anybody at any hospital i assume, or anybody on the floor. >> reporter: file matteo can't get any visits from his sister or extended family, his parents say they will still try to carry on with traditions. >> we will open a presence here, in the hospital. >> we reached out worker more on their visitor policy. and they say leadership does review any additional requests, and could make an exception based on extenuating serve circumstances, so maybe matteo does have a chance of getting his christmas wish after all. at sanford, kat

not just says yasmin is fortunate that she could reach the shelter. that's not always possible. in areas controlled by the taliban, are you able to help women who may be suffering from violence that we cannot to help them? because we don't know about the violence to hear what's going on and it looks like everything is ok there. looks like activists because they did, the woman doesn't have a right. don't have a right to raise did it was. so when they have it, if you don't, here's something. so how can you help them today more than 60 percent of districts in afghanistan, a controlled contested by the taliban. we don't know how they're treating women in these areas because it's too dangerous for us to go. but a confidential source close to the taliban said he could help us investigation after days of kid food planning, he was able to film this extraordinary footage and smuggle it through government checkpoints. it's from a district in gas need province which fell to the taliban music. i was not something that john rich enough to even try to get on managing to support you because, y

let's speak now to dr yasmin maor, the head of the infectious disease unit at wolfson medical center aviv university. thank you forjoining us. let me ask you, how is israel managing to roll out the vaccine programme so efficiently and quickly?” out the vaccine programme so efficiently and quickly? i think it is amazing. there are national hmos around the country, which have a good coverage of the country. vaccination was based both in hospitals and also on hmos with big centres, where they could gather enough people to get the vaccine, because it is dispersed in quantities of nine had 50 doses, which —— 950 doses, which have to be used within five days of being dispensed. after it is thawed, it can only be used for five days. it is an amazing operation, and i think israel is doing a good job on this was not how willing are israelis to be vaccinated? there is quite a high willingness, higher than for the influencers vaccine. various surveys we conducted in israel, saw about 70% of the population wants to get vaccinated. these are very high numbers. also we see that the demand is highe

and yasmin, too. >> hi, david. i just want to show you guys my desk.sk that was made by les. i'm very grateful. thank you, les. >> and in santa fe, new mexico, david gunter and the community desk project. sending his blueprints all over the country to other "world news tonight" viewers. about 100 of them. including walter and yoko putnam and al thompson in toledo, ohio. >> a student desk can make things a little bit easier for kids and make them sit down and work and learn, i think, is a plus, it's a good thing. >> we do, too. every single desk made, we love what you've done. we'll see you tomorrow. >>> a break through overseas in the race for a vaccine. tonight a ucsf doctor explained what the u.k. is about to begin could be a lesson for us here in california. >> the impact of the pandemic. the busy transit system faces business cuts and layoffs. contributor and insider phil ma with the perspective. >> i'm wayne freedman where tourism is a boom and normally a concern. we'll tell you why coming up. >>> an out of work restaurant worker shares his edd sa

place it's not insurmountable this is something that the international community can and should do yasmin last week there were around 1600 rohingya refugees that were tramp. for by bangladesh's government to the island of basilan char which is this remote island in the bay of bengal and bangladesh his government says the only running to refugees who wanted to go to that island were taken but many humanitarian groups have expressed concern and they have opposed the move how worried are you about the fact that around 600 refugees were taken there and do you know if there were refugees who were taken there against their will well this is definitely a very concerning moment i am still very worried about the situation as a whole. there have been a few videos a few different footage that come out of the us and char soon after the move and it hasn't really given us the ideal picture that the bangladeshi government have painted and the. situation right now is that a lot of the people within months and char are you know subjected to a lot of fear and intimidation which is a very very ironic moment

creators, our female gaming creators, a young woman who is called yammy, or her channel name is yammy, yasminmy son dante has been requesting me to play this game for a month. every day he says to me... please can you play the henry stickmin collection? she's a young woman who has built a hugely successful gaming channel. she had a child at 16, that would largely speaking rule you out of a career in mainstream media, traditional media, but it hasn't held her back at all. any one of our creators would be able to open their analytics and see what's happened to pricing in which market, where did their viewership come from? that empowers people to make informed decisions. you know, he's not as famous asjoe wicks, but on our platform, he's just as successful asjoe wicks, is a young guy from folkestone and hythe called matt morsia. the more subscribers i have, ultimately the more i can command in terms of sponsorship. if i go to a company and say i have 1.5 million subscribers, i can ask for more money and get a bigger sponsored video. he's produced multiple video explaining how much he's made, eit

and yasmin, too. >> hi, david. i just want to show you guys my desk.sk that was made by les. i'm very grateful. thank you, les. >> and in santa fe, new mexico, david gunter and the community desk project. sending his blueprints all over the country to other "world news tonight" viewers. about 100 of them. including walter and yoko putnam and elle thompson in ohio. >> it can make them want to sit down and work and learn. i think it's a plus, it's a good thing. >> we do, too. every single desk >>> we continue to be at risk of exceeding our hospital capacity. >> that volume of mixing of households and the surging cases across the united states could really be an acceleration. >> a surge in cases and the numbers continue to rise now at least one bay area county is worried it could soon run out of the hospital beds. good afternoon. thanks for joining us. i'm larry beil. >> i'm kristen sze. california set a record for the highest daily covid-19 count, more than 20,000 cases. one hot spot is los angeles. officials there said they're seeing a quote terrifying

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sima yasmin. doctor, thank you so much for coming on.er vaccine one step closer to approval, that's good news. but there's a long way to go before that happens, 63,000 americans have died so far in just december, making this the deadliest month since the pandemic. what do you expect in terms of what january may look like? >> so good morning. i don't think it's a coincidence that december has been the deadliest month for covid-19 here in the states given it's happening -- the highest number of deaths are happening three, four weeks out of thanksgiving when we did see millions of people travel, also people having gatherings in their home and lots of intermingling happe happening. this is why we have models doing these projections for us, telling us what january and april could look like in particular, both good case scenarios but also worst case scenarios. we are sitting up and paying attention to some of those grim numbers, the worst case scenarios. because in the past few months we've seen some of the worst case scenarios pan out. they'r